jabber.fsinf.at Jabber for everyone!

As many of you may know, we have been running jabber.at in parallel to this installation for a while now. This creates an unnecessary burden of administration work, especially as we have to fight spammers on two servers. Therefore, effective Aug 31, 2011, public registration on this service (jabber.fsinf.at) will no longer be possible and transport registrations will only be possible from local accounts.

Update: We are meeting on March 1st, 2 p.m., not everybody involved had time today.

Good news often come with the notice of downtimes: We will be getting a brand new IP subnet from our provider, the Vienna University of Technology. This is very good because we will be able to provide IPv6 support very soon! We will initiate migration to the new subnet on Monday, it is very likely that we will have some (hopefully minor) downtimes during the day.

We will update ejabberd to version 2.1.6 on December 19, 2010, 10:00 a.m. CEST. There will be a short downtime, sorry for the inconvenience.

Our domain provider warned us that their DNS-servers will be unavailable for about 3 hours on December 16th. The downtime will happen somewhere between 2:00 am to 6:00 am. If you desperately need a connection during this time, you can add our IP (128.131.95.41) to your Hosts file in the mean time.

Update: Ups, we forgot about this yesterday, we will do it at midnight today.

Due to updates to our server, the server will be down for some time on Monday, August 23, 2010 around 1 am. We will use this time to upgrade our operating system from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 10.04.1) and ejabberd from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5.

Update: Ubuntu 10.04.1 apparently has again been delayed until Tue, Aug 17th. Lets see if their promise holds this time.
Update 2: Please see the most recent article for up to date information.

Update: It seems that both the problems with gmail and jabber.org (which both were totally unrelated) are now resolved. If you have any more problems, please contact us.
Update 2: Since the problems with connecting to gmail.com seem to be somehow DNS related, we tried naming the gmail.com XMPP servers explicitly in our hosts file and at least I haven't seen any problems in the last few days. Please contact us if you still have problems.

We are currently experiencing some server-to-server connection problems:

We had some downtime during the night and in the morning. During the night, our DNS provider was at fault, this morning some broken firewall rules made the server unreachable from the outside. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We are currently experiencing some network-related maintenance by our "provider", the Vienna University of Technology. It seems our service was unreachable for many users for at least two hours or so. For now, the network seems to work fine, but you may or may not experience some further downtime. We apologize for the problems.